The cost of your food: people's lives

The cost of your food: people's lives

The cheap imported food that you eat doesn't come without a cost. The rise of agribusiness has been uprooting the small indigenous farmers in countries like Brazil for decades. In Brazil, it's benefiting rich land owners and transnational corporations while small farmers have been forced off their land and into cities for hopeless lives in the favela, searching for jobs that never came. But a huge social movement with broad political support is helping some of these landless workers get their lives back. We go to a commune where they are growing their own food and living a sustainable socialist life, escaping the capitalism that has oppressed them.

Jon Stewart: 'US media failed'

Jon Stewart: 'US media failed'


The Rally to Restore Sanity brought thousands of people to the National Mall in Washington DC Halloween weekend. Much of the US mainstream media was criticized by comedians John Stewart and Stephen Colbert for failing to report in a way that informs people. Stewart tried to make the point that corporate media is only part of a bigger problem that the US is facing currently.

Brazil's Silent Revolution

Brazil's Silent Revolution

In a country characterized by a a vast divide between the haves and have nots, the poor are making a comeback. Brazil's social program Bolsa Familia has helped lift millions out of poverty, narrowing the divide between rich and poor, fueling the rise of one of the fastest growing major economies in the world. What can the rest of the globe learn from the success of a once depressed and self-consious country?

John Stewart rally, US political comedy

John Stewart rally, US political comedy

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert supporters will descend upon the National Mall in Washington — and in other parts of the country — on Saturday for the "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear." Is this the only way to get Americans to rally for something? It seems that American mainstream media has failed in its attempt to reach out to America's youth.

Daily Show more popular than cable news

Daily Show more popular than cable news

Antiwar activist and co-founder of Code Pink, Medea Benjamin, explained that John Stewart wants those who normally do not rally or protest to attend his event, The Rally to Restore Sanity. Benjamin believes "more people need to get involved in the United States and the United States has become a nation of the uninvolved. She is glad Stewart is waking more people up and getting them involved in civil society.